— Self-management has often been proposed as a means to reduce the growing complexity of administration in distributed systems. We argue that this can be achieved through aggress...
The role-based access control (RBAC) has significantly simplified the management of users and permissions in computing systems. In dynamic environments, systems are usually unde...
High contention of flows is associated with unstable network behavior and unmanageable resource administration, i.e., convergence to equilibrium becomes a difficult task. In this ...
D'Agents is a general-purpose mobile-agent system that has been used in several informationretrieval applications. In this paper, we first examine one such application, opera...
Robert S. Gray, George Cybenko, David Kotz, Ronald...
Developing pervasive computing applications is a difficult task because it requires to deal with a wide range of issues: heterogeneous devices, entity distribution, entity coordi...
Damien Cassou, Benjamin Bertran, Nicolas Loriant, ...